(Radio NZ) Police, prisons and spy agencies missed chances to direct the LynnMall terror attacker away from violent extremism, and he was locked up for so long it greatly increased his radicalisation.
These are among the “significant deficiencies” found by a hefty independent review out today into the handling of Ahamed Samsudeen.
Samsudeen, a Sri Lankan Tamil who had gained refugee status in New Zealand, inhabited extremist websites, was locked up on remand for about four years, then surveilled 24/7 for weeks on his release, before he attacked shoppers in the Auckland mall, seriously injuring four women and one man with a knife, in September last year. Another man suffered a minor wound, and another dislocated his shoulder while trying to stop the attack.
